Lamprospilus

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Lamprospilus
File:Illustrations of diurnal Lepidoptera 73.jpg
Lamprospilus and other Lycaenidae depicted in William Chapman Hewitson's Illustrations of diurnal Lepidoptera
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Tribe: Eumaeini
Genus: Lamprospilus
Geyer, 1832
Synonyms[1][2]

Gigantorubra Johnson, 1993

Lamprospilus is a Neotropical[1][2] genus of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae.[1][2][3] They occur in wet and dry lowland and montane forests from Mexico to central Argentina.[2]

Lamprospilus have sexually dimorphic wing patterns, to the extent that males and females have sometimes been first described as different species.[2]

Species

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There are at least seven recognized species:[3]

Some sources also recognize the following:[1][4]

References

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